Sarah Taylor

Experienced Systems Engineer

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Current
Past
  • IT Manager at Don Bennett & Associates, Inc.
  • Senior Systems Analyst at npower
  • Systems Engineer at Midlands Electricity, plc.
Education
  • The University of Wolverhampton
  • The University of Manchester
  • University of Bristol
Connections
108 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services

Sarah Taylor’s Summary

Experienced sysadmin with focus on Windows operating systems. Special interest in Internet technologies and internal corporate technical solutions. Experience in a wide variety of company types, from 12,000 users down to 15; appreciative of the challenges created in each unique environment.

Sarah Taylor’s Specialties:

Windows Server 2003, Exchange, commercial real estate advertising, document management, antivirus, SMTP


Sarah Taylor’s Experience

  • Sr Systems Engineer

    Endurance International Group

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

  • Sr Systems Engineer

    Endurance International

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

  • Systems Engineer

    IPOWER, Inc.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2006October 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  • Technical Support Lead

    IPOWER, Inc.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2006February 2006 (2 months)

    * second line telephone support for external customers, including responding to customer requests for a supervisor
    * second level technical support and problem resolution for both servers and client issues with web, ftp and email

  • Technical Support Representative

    IPOWER, Inc.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2005January 2006 (4 months)

    * first line technical support to external customers
    * Issues included:
    * Explanations of corporate web hosting facilities
    * Explanations of basic HTML problems
    * Troubleshooting web, FTP and email issues both on the server side and the clients'

  • IT Manager

    Don Bennett & Associates, Inc.

    (Commercial Real Estate industry)

    December 2004June 2005 (7 months)

    * Migration from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 on new hardware
    * Implementation of a dedicated mail scanning server
    * Redesign of corporate website including a dynamic real estate listings and map system
    * Responsibility for the building management system in terms of air conditioning and access control
    * Creation of marketing materials
    * Management of the telecoms and data network for the building

  • Senior Systems Analyst

    npower

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Utilities industry)

    April 2002February 2003 (11 months)

    * third line telephone support for internal users
    * intranet content and application development
    * upgrade (to a significantly different software version) and support of the corporate mail gateways
    * planning three migrations of mail accounts into the corporate system from newly integrated companies
    * conducting confidential mail usage audits
    * support for 17 Exchange servers

  • Systems Engineer

    Midlands Electricity, plc.

    (Utilities industry)

    September 1997September 2001 (4 years 1 month)

    * Corporate antivirus administration
    * Corporate hardware evaluation
    * Implementation of Tivoli Netfinity servers
    * Researching, planning, developing, maintaining and supporting the corporate Internet connection, including the firewall, DNS server and FTP server
    * Responsibility for Internet e-mail
    * Support for Intranet servers
    * Auditing Internet usage


Sarah Taylor’s Education

  • The University of Wolverhampton

    19962000

  • The University of Manchester

    Classics , 19951996

    Activities and Societies:
    Circus Skills Society
  • University of Bristol

    19941995

    Activities and Societies:
    Circus Skills Society

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